Database research record2025·Romania
Commoning and just sustainability across time, space and class: lessons from terminated urban gardening projects in Bucharest
Ioana Florea
Environmental Sociology
Urban Farm DB summary
This paper investigated three collective gardening projects in Bucharest that closed between 2019 and 2021, analyzing what remains of their sustainability capacities and commoning efforts after termination. Findings indicate that while essential commoning aspects like collectivity building and autonomy can endure and transfer to other spaces, cross-class aspects fade away with these transpositions. This reveals that what persists from closed gardening projects is strongly tied to structural historical contexts.